I know that when I was growing up, my grade school was 100% caucasian students (that was k-6). When I started high school (which was 7-12: we didn't have a middle/jr high school). We had no more than 3 african american students at one time. That was it. Not very diverse (high school when I graduated had roughly 650 students grades 7-12). Now, I went to a small school, slightly rural (in a town of about 3500). In the city, of course it was a bit more diverse, but not much more. My example of my high school is also a example of my state (west virginia) We just don't have very much ethnic diversity. I can see that providing more points for of minority could benifit a school and a state. Without this point system (which I'm not sure if we even have--but I'm assuming that we do) we probably wouldn't have the diversity that we do in our colleges and universities in this state. I think that providing diversity for ALL students is important. I can see also how it can be considered insulting though. Maybe students should be given the choice of whether or not they want to accept the extra points?
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